Nursery

 Kohen is 18 months old now! Which means he officially gets to go to nursery at church and went for the first time yesterday. I was already the nursery leader before Kasen or Tai turned 18M so sending Kohen in there by himself makes it seem like he's still too little, but also so nice that Kyle and I can go to Sunday school together on the weeks that I don't have YW. His nursery leaders said he was so quiet until they got out the bubbles then he was screaming with excitement! When I went to get him he was even saying, "bubble".

This morning we went to his 18M well check and he weighs 24 pounds, has almost 13 teeth and will bite you with them if you try to feel them growing in. He knows where his tongue, ears, eyes, nose, belly and head all are, but can't name them. He's not talking as much as Kasen or Tai were at this age. But he is officially done with his bottles. He drinks all his almond milk from a sippy cup now and all he wants to do it eat! He stands in front of the pantry door all day long. He runs to his high chair when we say chair and no matter what we give him now he says, "hah" for hot, because we tell him over and over when the food on his tray might still be too hot! Haha He eats almost anything. Except bread. But everyone keeps handing him pieces of bread. Even though he never eats them!

Kohen LOVES dogs! He gets very excited to see them and when he wakes up the first thing he looks for is his "gah". He waves and says "bye" now and when Kyle leaves for work he will usually cry by the door. He gets so excited to see Kyle on Marco Polo when he talks to us.

Kasen had an elephant nursery room when he was born and this rocking elephant was part of it, but nobody has ridden this rocking elephant more than Kohen! He drags it out to ride quite often. Now that he's getting too big for it, his new favorite thing is to tip over the front of it. He rides so hard!

I LOVE his curly hair. It's longer than Tai's hair when she was 2 years old and Kyle wants to cut it, but I'm on team don't cut it. 

 

-He is stinking cute when he squints his little eyes when we say family prayer too.

-Tai cracks me up cause her new thing is to narrate what she thinks Kohen is thinking. And it is hilarious!

-He is also in a shoe phase where he will wear any and all shoes near to him.

Kasen is big enough to get Kohen out of his crib in the mornings and he loves playing with him and Tai. I love hearing Kasen singing Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to Kohen to get him to go play with them. Only on the weekends though. On school days Kohen stays in bed until Kasen is off to school.

And I don't even remember the last time Kohen slept in my arms. I am always torn between wanting to rock him all the way to sleep and also wanting him to be able to go to sleep on his own. That and I don't have the patience for him trying to get down the whole time. But when we got home at 11pm one Sunday night he fell asleep so fast and I soaked it all up.

Last month we went to Coconut Cove with the DeVaneys and it wore Kohen out. He slept on me AGAIN, except it was while I was trying to grab some groceries from Costco on the way home. So I had Kohen in one arm and pulled Kasen and Tai in the cart with the other. It was real fun. 

The next day Heidi came over to dye my hair for me though! So super nice of her!

Being a mom is wild- just all the feelings. Guilt that just hearing them talk sometimes can trigger anger one second, then the very next second be laughing our guts out cause Kasen is acting out being a taco and Tai is narrating what she thinks Kohen would be saying! 😆

Kids are so demanding all day, (and also in the night, when they puke all over their bedroom for example) but also I just want to make them happy and say yes too. So we go to the library and invite friends over and read books and duel Pokemon and do science experiments and play Spot It and paint fingernails and reheat their food again when they won't just eat it the first time, even though it's exactly what they asked for. Then they tell you they're bored...

It's exhausting on every level and somehow so worth it at the same time. And I'm tired and also I don't want to go to bed yet. Cause I don't usually get to just sit for very long. But what did I even do today? Anything at all? Yes, I did everything! But why does it feel like nothing? How do they never stop talking? And how do I squeeze all the love into them that I feel for them without popping their little eyeballs out?! 

I want to let them be little and I want them to love being little. 

But also I want them to maybe learn how to not spill their food better- cause mopping the floor is the worst...
I just love them so much!